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Imperial Influence on English Language of Ballari District

Dilshad Begum. G., M.A., M.Ed., MPhil., (Ph.D.)

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This article attempts to analyse the impact of imperial (colonial) influence on English Language of Ballari District. Through the fresh lenses of socio-linguistic perspective, the essay takes traces from the past from the ‘big picture’ of the Raj and draws it to the present state of English Education in Ballari District. This connects the transitional account of decades of incubation of English language in the furnace of space and time to its present formation of relevancy to Ballari. Ballari district is given special privileges to improve from its backward rut. It is one of the districts under Hyderabad Karnataka Region identified under Article 371J of the Indian Constitution. In spite of its regional imbalance, Ballari has stood as an important hub for educational and professional requirements for the suburban areas. Under the Raj it was an important base-station for the British administration, revenue, missionary activities and educational endeavors. The colonial rule has left a tinge of its English language in day-to-day lives of Ballarians.

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Introduction

By way of establishing his philosophy on how educational transformations occur as hegemony in society, Antonio Gramsci (1971) wrote that “Every relationship of ‘hegemony’ is necessarily an educational relationship and occurs not only within a nation, between the various forces of which the nation is composed, but in the international and worldwide field, between complexes of national and continental civilizations”. Seen in this perspective, the onslaught of English Education on imperial India in general and on Ballari in particular, could be considered the most important ‘ideological state apparatus’ (Therbon 1980) devised by the imperial rulers.

English language and English Education were not just a pedagogical system but the whole relationship between the colonized and colonizer. To rule a new civilization, the colonial rulers had to create a new order of society that to be acted upon and coercion had to be replaced or supplemented by the English educational system through English Language. It was an indispensable endeavor of the colonizers to produce a newly educated middle class, for it could enable the British to consolidate their position in the newly colonized region. In other words, the colonial English educational system had to create a section of collaborator or a mediator between the imperial ruler and Indians whom they governed.

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Dilshad Begum. G., M.A., M.Ed., MPhil., (Ph.D.)
Lecturer in English
Govt. Polytechnic, Ballari
Research Scholar, VSKU Ballari 583104
Karnataka
India
gdilshad79@gmail.com

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